out for delivery - my first Mac

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Bought a refurb 13' Air ultimate on the Apple store and its out for delivery today. As I eagerly await the fedex truck I'm starting to realize I don't know where to start once I get it. As a PC user all my life I usually do the hour long updates and removal of bloatware along with fumbling through multiple antivirus. Any tips on where to start?

macrumors Westmere

Bought a refurb 13' Air ultimate on the Apple store and its out for delivery today. As I eagerly await the fedex truck I'm starting to realize I don't know where to start once I get it. As a PC user all my life I usually do the hour long updates and removal of bloatware along with fumbling through multiple antivirus. Any tips on where to start?

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As a Mac user, you have no bloatware to remove and you have no viruses to worry about. You can just start using your new Mac.

macrumors 6502

Bought a refurb 13' Air ultimate on the Apple store and its out for delivery today. As I eagerly await the fedex truck I'm starting to realize I don't know where to start once I get it. As a PC user all my life I usually do the hour long updates and removal of bloatware along with fumbling through multiple antivirus. Any tips on where to start?

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There will be about 6-7 updates as it probably has 10.6.5 and you'll update it to 10.6.6. A few other ones to programs, you'll have one for iTunes and Safari as they were updated yesterday, and I think there will be a Java update. I just received my new Air 3 days ago and on Coconut Battery it says it is a week old, and I had to do these updates. You won't have to remove ANY bloatware whatsoever, but there will be iLife 11 which has iWeb, iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie. I deleted iWeb because I have no use for it.

As for Antivirus, a lot of people don't have it but go to sophos.com and download they're FREE antivirus for Mac if you want it.

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